Victorian Current Acts

CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005 - SECT 488AB

    (1)     The officer in charge may order at any time, if in his or her opinion it is necessary to do so in the interests of the security or good order of a youth justice facility or the detainees, that an officer—

        (a)     search any part of the youth justice facility; or

        (b)     search and examine any person in the youth justice facility other than a judge of the Supreme Court or County Court or a magistrate; or

        (c)     search and examine any thing in the youth justice facility.

S. 488AB(2) amended by No. 29/2014 s. 11.

    (2)     A person must not be asked under this section to submit to an unclothed search or a search of his or her body cavities.

S. 488AC (Heading) amended by No. 29/2014 s. 12(1).

S. 488AC inserted by No. 54/2011 s. 7.